Matt Harvey

And the Mets at least made it somewhat entertaining.

Matt Harvey, the Dark Knight, was on the team.

Norris Syndergaard was throwing at people's heads.

That kind of made it entertaining.

Pedro, Beltran.

Also, Omar's parting gift to the Mets when they jettisoned him in 2010, Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom drafted both those guys who eventually would pitch the Mets into the World Series in 2015.

He knows, and I guarantee you this, my fans will love this part about this, he would have never let Pete Alonso go.

I could disagree with him on that.

They're running out of time, and this is why going back to two years ago, This is why I'm screaming in the microphone that you have to go now because you don't know how long this young pitching staff will stay together.

Look at the Mets with Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Jacob DeGrom.

How long did that hang around? Not very long.

Look at the Pirates at this point.

I played for an organization in high school every summer called the Midland Redskins out of Ohio, one of the top programs in the country with East Cobb and DVAT and some of those.

But Played with guys like Matt Harvey, Eric Hosmer, Devin Marrero, like some pretty big name guys.

I think we had, our whole starting lineup was drafted my senior summer there.

We won a Connie Mack World Series.

The amount – the people that were there, like I was alluding to before, just all different collection of people.

At my – long table at dinner and in my section, it was me, Matt Harvey, the Dark Knight.

You've got me, Matt Harvey, Dustin Pedroia, Eric Hinsky who is a baseball player.

You've got Wes from the Lumineers.

there.

And that would become, in a lot of ways... one of the signatures of this program was just these incredible – I never forget seeing one tangent story, seeing you guys in Omaha 2009, the Tar Heels, and just another incredible team.

And I remember I was doing radio for Arizona State, and I remember hearing one of the Arizona State coaches say to him, Matt Harvey this rotation so good Matt Harvey's the guy we want to face like we hope we get Harvey because the other two guys are so good and think about how bonkers that statement is so so coach Fox let me start with you give me your North Carolina UNC origin story how do you get there in the first place

Well, first of all, when you rattled off all those teams that did not make it to Omaha, thank you for leaving out 2012, 2017, 2019.

I hear that now on occasions.

We have all this good young pitching.

But you know what would be great for this young pitching? You know what would be great for Matt Harvey coming off of Tommy John? You know what would be great for Jacob deGrom coming off rookie of the year? You know what would be great for the emergence of Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz? To have like a Cy Young Award winner to learn from.

Could you imagine if the Mets had signed Max Scherzer in the 14 into 15 offseason? And don't tell, oh, they had enough pitching.

Cut the crap.

I wanted to look at everything, including all the injuries he's dealt with.

But I think the other thing that would be very helpful, and it's what I alluded to with Scherzer potentially in 14 and 15, is having a start, a smart start, Proven stud to lead your rotation and what it can teach the young pitchers around them.

Like, I wonder if Max Scherzer joined the Mets in 14 into 15, how does it affect good and bad Matt Harvey? How does it affect Jacob DeGrom? We may have seen different careers from those guys, like especially Harvey.

Could you imagine Max Scherzer? And please take out the emotions of Scherzer as a Met, because it really is irrelevant in this.